Vichy France

Works of Nobel Prize for Literature winner Patrick Modiano deal with Holocaust issues

The works of Patrick Modiano, the French author awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, deal frequently with the experience of Jews under the collaborationist Vichy Regime in World War II occupied France.

October 10, 2014 8:33 am

Les Misérables, With a Holocaust Twist

Have you seen Les Misérables? Remember the scene where the hero rescues the Jewish family by driving them out of Nazi-occupied Paris? Oh wait—doesn’t ring a bell? Wrong Les Miz. Victor Hugo’s classic novel has lived many lives, and only one of them is Jewish: The 1995 French film, which recasts the story in early- to mid-20th-century France. Starring […]

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Vichy head toughened persecution of Jews, document shows

The head of France’s Vichy regime may have pushed for tougher laws against French Jews than were requested by Nazi Germany, a newly discovered document shows.

October 4, 2010 8:34 pm

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Works of Nobel Prize for Literature winner Patrick Modiano deal with Holocaust issues

Les Misérables, With a Holocaust Twist

Vichy head toughened persecution of Jews, document shows

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